Forest City vs Lake Mary

A side-by-side comparison of Forest City and Lake Mary: population, income, housing, and more.

Forest City and Lake Mary are places in Florida. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Lake Mary has the higher population (16,724 vs 14,871 in Forest City). Lake Mary has the higher median household income ($116,944 vs $84,337 in Forest City). Lake Mary has the higher median home value ($462,200 vs $364,900 in Forest City).

Population, income & housing

	Forest City	Lake Mary
Population	14,871	16,724
Median age	41.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
Median household income	$84,337	$116,944
Median home value	$364,900	$462,200
Median gross rent	$1,706	$1,999
Housing units	5,835	7,319
Homeownership rate	64.5%	66.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	41.9%	54.4%
Unemployment rate	4.1%	2.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Forest City	Lake Mary
Population	14,592 → 14,871 (+1.9%)	16,698 → 16,724 (+0.2%)
Median household income	$66,679 → $84,337 (+26.5%)	$96,983 → $116,944 (+20.6%)
Median home value	$250,900 → $364,900 (+45.4%)	$320,100 → $462,200 (+44.4%)
Median gross rent	$1,193 → $1,706 (+43.0%)	$1,633 → $1,999 (+22.4%)

Forest City

Population

14,59214,871

Median household income

$66,679$84,337

Median home value

$250,900$364,900

Median gross rent

$1,193$1,706

Lake Mary

Population

16,69816,724

Median household income

$96,983$116,944

Median home value

$320,100$462,200

Median gross rent

$1,633$1,999

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Forest City	Lake Mary
Under 5	3.8%	5.5%
5 to 17	17.2%	13.7%
18 to 24	6.0%	5.9%
25 to 34	13.8%	12.2%
35 to 44	15.9%	14.1%
45 to 54	15.7%	15.7%
55 to 64	11.9%	13.9%
65 to 74	7.7%	10.6%
75 and over	8.0%	8.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Forest City	Lake Mary
White (non-Hispanic)	53.6%	64.6%
Black or African American	8.2%	10.2%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	5.3%	8.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.6%	1.2%
Two or more races	5.7%	1.9%
Hispanic or Latino	26.6%	13.5%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Forest City	Lake Mary
No high school diploma	5.9%	3.1%
High school graduate	26.4%	17.5%
Some college or associate's	25.8%	25.1%
Bachelor's degree	28.3%	35.3%
Graduate or professional degree	13.6%	19.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Forest City	Lake Mary
Drove alone	73.8%	65.6%
Carpooled	9.1%	7.5%
Public transit	0.3%	0.7%
Walked	0.9%	0.9%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.4%	23.0%
Other means	0.4%	2.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Forest City	Lake Mary
1-unit, detached	70.8%	57.3%
1-unit, attached	4.3%	9.9%
2 to 4 units	4.3%	5.1%
5 to 19 units	12.1%	8.3%
20 or more units	8.0%	14.0%
Mobile home & other	0.6%	5.3%

Poverty & households

	Forest City	Lake Mary
Poverty rate	9.4%	2.2%
Average household size	2.65	2.37
Mean commute (minutes)	28	25
Median year structure built	1984	1997